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St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

THE BANJ0IST AND STORY TELLER
to happen. This caller is to be very
funny. He is to spit in the other fei-
lows hat, fall over chairs, strike at his
dog with the umbrella so that the cloth
may fly out in the audience, persist in
untying the gentleman's necktie. and
be as uproarOusly funny as he can be
in the same lines as 5000 or 1900 others,
just like him, have been every night for
years, and will be every night for cen
turieS, apparently. Finally, he is to de-
velop the most phenomenal musical tai
ent, playing on all the musical instru-
ments in the other fellows stock, and
finally extracting music from the chairs,
the table and his stuffed dog. The old
play-gOer has seen him a thousand
times, and he knows every move and
every tune he plays by heart. He
knows it's all chestnut, and has been
for a long, long time; but there he is,
back in his chair, roaring with laughter,
just as hearty as that of the gallery who
are only looking Oh it for the twentieth
time.
The glrl who sings while she dances
with Sklpping.rope dates away back
from the flood. There are pictures of
blooms perennial, and she sings most
dolefully some unintelligible words
about bench where the honeysuckle
grows. She generally winds up with an
exciting .rope-skipping exhibition, the
object of which is to tire out the fiddlers
and excite the sympathy of the audi
ence, where there are whispers that
she's liable to die of heart disease. just
about the time they all expect her to
topple over dead, a martyr to duty, she
comes to a stop as fresh as a daisy, and
retires with her rope over her shoulder
amid thunders of applause, in response
to which she appears again and sings,
when The Robins Nest Again.
After her comes the roller-skat-
ing act, with its ridiculous beginning in
representation of poor skater on ice,
and sudden development of the skater
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
NN7RAcT WORK
Grading Carroll Street:

OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC Works, !
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, Oct. 10, 1887.
Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Public Works in and for the
corporation of the city of st. Paul, Min
nesota, at their office in said city, until
II M, on the 31st day of October, A. d.
1887, for the grading of Carroll street.
from Cleveland avenue to Smelling ave
nue., in said city, according to plans
and specifications on file in the office
of said Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties
in a sum of at least twenty (2O per cent.
of the gross amount bid must accom-
pany each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
r. L. GORMAN. President.
Official: w. F. ERWIN,
292-303 Clerk Board of Public Works.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23


OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC Works. !
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi. Oct. 10. 1887.
Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Public Works in and for the
corporation of the city of st. Paul, Min
nesota, at their office in said city. until
Il M, on the 31St day of October, \. ID.
1887, for the paving of Sixth street, from
College avenue to Oak street now Smith
avenue) in said city, with pine blocks and
curb with granite, together with the
necessary sewer connections. according
to plans and specifications on file in
the Office of said Board.
A bond with at least two (2) suretieS
in sum of at least twenty (20) per cent.
of the gross amount bid must accompany
each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
r. l.. GORMAN, President.
Ofhclal: w. +. ERWIN,
2s9S-oOo Clerk Board Public Works.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
NOTES FROM NATURE.

love these gentle tenants of the wood,
The timid hare, the filibustering jay,
Who, fitting here and there throughout
the day,
Fill with discordant notes the solitude.
The chattering squirrel, with plumes Of red
and gray;
The woodpecker, beating Off his reyeille;
The partridge, whirring rapidly away
10 denser coverts where no eye can see.
And often, when beneath the silver moon,
Placid and still the basking river lies,
The far-of wall of some belated loon
Floats family up to purple evening skies;
While swaying pines, with soft Foiian tune.
Forever join i'll natures symphony.
Paul H Lear
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tell him story with shadow in it.
Nothing but bear climbing rapidly up
tree after boy will make them grow
any bigger. And then don't YOU re-
member that. after an evening of wall
shadow entertainment, you could not go
to sleep for an hour after you went to
bed, seeing them all over again in your
minds eye?
Would it not be a capital idea for any
one to see how many different shadow
figures he can invent? Here is field
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

cork, and appears on the stage dragging
his chair behind him with one hand
while he holds his banjo in the other.
He sits down on his chair and exposes a
great big shoe to the audience, and then
he strums his banjo incidental to tell
ing what wonderful things hap
pened to him when he was ''com-
in down de street." He rattles
them off as a parrot would
Shakespeare. He runs one story into
another as though he had just so much
to say, and wanted to get through it.
When he has ratified it off, he plays OH
his banjo, and sings a topical song
about the Prize ring, politics, anything
and everything, just SO there's a line
here and there such as II can't tell you
why it is" or when I'm of st. Louis
the Mayor" etc.
The two negroes who rush in dressed
in white clothes put on rear end fore
most, and fall around all over the stage
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

THE YOUTHFUL It's all the Same-only
PRODIGY. different, for he enioys
this now on different basis than then.
He behoids this witching sylph an un-
changed type of one of the joys of his
early days. He settles back and waits
for the subsidence of the applause, and
her song. He notices now the same
cute look at the audience over that fan
of red and green and ivory and gold
the same little office to the orchestra
leader, and starts into interest at the
first tentative note of the song. Why,
he remembers it as well as he does that
supper years ago. with her prototype,
who Spurned his heart and made him
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

for the entertainment of young and old
comparatively little used. Now that
home entertainments are so popular,
why not try the shadow show? The
best of it is that the performer and all
the rest of the grown people will be as
deeply interested in the figures as the
children. Ii M. Trewey can invent
more than 500 pictures, why cannot Miss
Carrie or Master August do the same?
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

]hIiJ oiiihS tl1uu vas
plain and cheap
was styled ''a la
S | h o u e t t e. I"
Shadow profiles
were then much
in vogue, and, be-
ing the cheapest
order of lIkeneSSes
known, got the
name of silhou-
cites, and have
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

StOck,and always
have been and
always will be
used effectively
for thrill making
incidents. And
notice how big a
child's eyes will
GROW when YOu
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

Kept it ever since. In making profiles
of reduced size the pantograph was
used. Some persons have talent for
making a perfect miniature profile by
merely looking at the features and then
cutting them out with pair of scissors.
Almost every one will be astonished at
his own shadow.
Shadows on the wall have always a
poetic interest. In stories they are good
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

them, as is proven by the monochromes
on the Etruscan vases. But the name
silhouette comes from about the middle
of the last century. Etienne Silhouette
was French minister of finance in
1859. His treasury had been exhausted
by costly wars and foolish prodigalities.
He set to work to repIenish it by
inaugurating the strictest economy
He was prudent to penuriousness,
which brought down upon him both
wrath and ridicnle ANYTHING that was
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
CONTRACT WORK.
Sewer on State and Other
Streets.

OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC Works, }
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Minn.. Oct. II, 1887. I
Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Public Works in and for the
corporation of the city of st. Paul, Min
neSota, at their Office in said city, until
IL m. on the oath day of October, A.
ID. 1887, for the construction Of sewer
on State street, from Concord street
to South Robert street; on South Rob
ert street, from State street to Annap-
oils street, and on 0akdale avenue, from
State street to Bunker street, in said
city, together with the necessary catch
basins and manholes, according to plans
and specifications on file in the Office of
said Board.
A bond with at least two (2) suretieS
IN IN sum OF at least twenty (2O) per cent.
OF the gross amount bid must accom-
pany each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
Il. l.. GORMAN, President.
Oinclal: w. f. ERWIN,
2S5-291 Clerk Board Public Works.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

frame. SilhOu-
e ties were
known to the
ancien t S, and
reached a high
degree of per
fec tion with
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into an expert. This is the most weari-
some of all the antiquated things on the
variety stage. Next comes the infantile
musical prodigy. Never was a variety
show complete without one of these,
and never was anything more eXcruciat
ing put upon the stage. The children
cannot sing, and their sole chance of
making hit rests. in almost every in
stance, on their vulgarity in speech or
action. This prodigy business Oh the
variety stage is one of its most disgust
ing features. The prestidigitator usl-
ally appears next, with a full line of
tricks that have been exposed for years
and years, but he generally makes an
Interesting show, and if he don't he
winds up his part with a pie-biting
match between the two boys from the
audience who are called up TO see that
everything is done without the aid of
machinery.
The sOng-and-dance man is an old in
stitutiOn, and is ever new. He steps out
with his face set in lines of desperate
determination, and stands stiff and
straight while the orchestra tunes up
for him. Then he Sings-and such sing
ing. Every song-and-dance man for
fifty years has sung the same tune, and
the variation in the words Of their songs
has never been so great as to entirely
remove the suspicion of plagiarism. The
song is always about ']ovely girl"
who is ''the only one | ever loved" $50
charming, young and fair" which, in
the nature of this kind of verse. must
have an immediate and direct relation
to cher wealth of golden hair" After
meeting lin the bright moonshine," she
is asked twill you be mine!" and they're
going. to be married right away.
He dances. Just why it is no
one knows, but a Song-and-dance
man proper must wear melancholy eX-
preston, hold his hands down at his
side as if he was corpse dressed up i'm
tights and tinsel, and glare at the audi
ence with that ''far-away look" of which
the noyelists prate. He goes through
his part like wooden man, and once
off the stage turns up in front OF the
theater like clothing store dummy, III
the loudest checked suit the broad land
can furnish. The banioist is another
of the old-time features. He is in purnt
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

short but perilous pilgrimage ON the
rope.
There was a time when silhouettes
were the popular portraits. Most of us
have some idea how our grandfather
looked as shadow, because we have
diminutive silhouette of him safely
preserved in all Old-faShiOned block
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
Beware Of Talking "Shop.

Lon don Judy.
Mrs. Meddler-What a sad thing Door
Mr. Jackson's death was. People may
say what they like, but firmly believe
that it was that last operation that really
killed him. Now, don't you agree with
me, Mr.. SawbOneS?
Mr.. Sawbones-Well, no: i can't say
do. But perhaps I'm preiudiced-you
see performed the operation.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

their purses during season, and the
most careful analysis, the most search
ing investigation, absolutely fails to re-
veal the slightest trace of anything new
in any of them. Yet, though the aver
sion to cheStnutS Is general and deeply
seated in the nature of the public, these
succeeding aggregationS of most yener
able chestnutS are religiOuSly enjoyed
by thousands of citizens, says the st.
Louis Globe Democrat. To the old
''rounder," the man about town, the
variety show is a source of never-failing
delight, though he knows when he pays
his money at the box Office just what he
is going to see and hear. He knows as
well as he knows he's alive just what
the grand olio will consist of, for he's
seen hundreds of them. 1t is not the
least part of his pleasure of the even
ing when he picks up the play bill and
recognizes the familiar luXllriance of
adjectiveS Sprinkled about the names of
the performers in this amuSement-mak-
ing aggregation which holds the boards.
He takes his seat, and the whistles from
the gallery gods are dear to his heart,
for when he was lad he Sweated and
whistled i'll the gallery, too, for the ap-
pearance of just such lights of the stage
as he has come to see tonight. Ha. the
same old fat man at the bass fiddle, and
the same MISUNDERSTANDING rear of
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

the gorgeous stockings
are filed out to the same
phenomenal aptitude.
The dress has not grown
longer in twenty years,
nor has the wear and tear
abated one jot or title of
its StarchineSS or glitter.
The bust is as remarka-
ible as ever, the paint on
lher cheeks as red, the
ochre of her hair unfair
nished-the tout ensem-
bic is the same. It's the
change in things about a
man that makes him feel
old, but here is no
change; it's all just the
same as it was in the good
old day S, and no wonder
tho old rnunIar
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

paper for his cap
and a string for
his bride. The
female tight rope
walker is one of
the most ingenious
! )f all the figures.
| She is in the act
'of saluting the pub
lie, and rubbing
the chalk OH her
feet before start
ING fOurth on her
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

THE sYLPH, ANCIENT But STILL FRESH.
the orchestra leader rosining his bow.
Like the memory of an old song learned
in chiidhoeai lis that overture, the chef
feature of which is sure to be the bird in
the forester the locomotive. The curtain
goes up, and there before his eyes is the
same old scenery which he used to see
in the old theatel to which he went
when he was boy-the gorgeous par
lor in which the aggregation comes out
and presents its full force to the audi
ence-he used to think that it was such
gorgeousneSs at this parlor that the
story writers tried to tell in the Arabian
Nights. After the grand entree and
all that he sees the scene shifted and
Sylph-like form trip out into the wood,
where the boughs of a majestic oak
bend their majestic arches over purl-
ing stream which runs back, narrowing
between highly improbable rocks and
up the sides of an indigo mountain.
Can he believe his eyes? He must. 1t
is that same charming vocalist who in
years gone by sung his youthful heart
clear OutOf his burning bosom. But no
that was twenty years ago, and it is
not the idol of his youthful dreams. 1t
is another, according to the programme,
but not at all different. She smiles the
same smile and walks with the same ap-
parent propensity to genufiect every time
she takes a step. She has the same pink
slippers with the same high heels and
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
A SHADOW SHOW.
ID. Trewey's New Phase Of an Old
Nursery Entertainment.
PARIS THINKS IT IMMENSE.
Three Hundred Silhouettes With a Wall,
Lamp and Nimble Pair
Of Hands.

HO does not re-
! !, ! . ] ] 4 !; ! ]
member that one
of the entertain
~ ~ r mentS of childhood
RzA@A[R was making sill
XHEM xxx hOuettes? A lamp.
@ III XN& white wall and
kyI NNS9 an ingenious pair
of hands constitute
the paraphernalia
of the entertain
ment. Cats, dogs, rabbits, scolding old
women and angry old men come forth,
are visible for a little time, and then
give place to other figures equally anus
ing. A certain limited stock company
OF shadows is known to every one, but
it remained for M. Trewey, an ingenious
gentleman in Paris, who looks aston
ishingly like an Irishman, and is one,
perhaps, to make popular art of the
manufacture of silhOuetteS. He has in
vented more than 800 new SilhOuetteS
OF men and animals, to which he gives
the movements, attitudes and an as
tonishing expression of life and natural
ness. At the Aleazar Of the Champs
ElySeeS he has been giving entertain
ments, which have been attended by
large and delighted audiences.
nj. Trewey was heretofore famous as
an equilibriSl and prestidigitateur. The
idea of taking up the Old nursery wall
shadows and making show of them
which would be alike amusing to the
young and the old, is purely his own,
and it demonstrates that in simplicity
there is always success. 1t is a plat
form upon which all can meet and un-
derstand everything alike.
Here is the cat. She used to show
only her head. a. ~
influence of M. -
Trewey's genius, / "a
she appears en- Z :sA
tire, even to the TX
tail. which, though /NN\ s(2z
somewhat abbre- -
waited, is still re-
spec abb e al
though somewhat
scuffed appendage. The accessories for
these pictures are very simple. A little
scrap of paper cut in the shape repre-
presesented forms the toque of the judge
and the miter of the priest, whose pull
pit is made by a cube of wood suspended
to the arm. The goose is represented
a, dressing IFS feathers with its bill; the
iOckey is completed by means of bit of
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

Observation-Disclosures.
Tailor Ito cutter)--One POCKET con
cealed in lining of vest
Customer-Eh? Whato
change, you know, at night; I'm ina
ried myself,
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

ASAN AZ LiiS Sehos
only her head.
Now, under the
influence of NJ.
Trewey's genius,
she appears en-
tire, even to the
tail. which, though
somewhat abbre-
waited, is still a re-
spec t a b | e al
though somewhat
\ j
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

niopLe with ad. in this edition
~fSf NO Find tomorrow position.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

pawnbroker's window. The very same
old song. &
'Tis 8 o'clock and am here,
Down by the shady dell.
To hear him whisper in my ear
Those words I'll never tell.
oh he il be always true To me
And I'll be true to him.
His coming fills my heart with joy,
Ny own, my darling Jim.
The boys who were out with him the
night he first heard about Jim are all
gone now. Seine are dead and some are
in Jail, perhaps, and some so rich that
The Newtown bee., 1887-12-02

Winter goods at the National Clothing Store, Bridgeport. You can buy nice Winter overcoat to fit man for $6 50,to fit child for B 50. Children's short pants suits $2 30, sizes from 4 to 14 years Good strong all wool suits, $4. Childrens & short pants, 25c per pair. In mems suits you can buy handsome black Cheviot suit, cut in either sack or 4-button frock, SIP A real strong, good wearing all wool Scotch goods suit, BIO. Handsome dress suits in corkscrew goods. SIS. Mems overcoats in stylish black and brown beaver, $15. Youths square cut sack suits, $S 50. Choice patterns in silk mixed goods. $i5; these are cut in stylish sacks for the nob- bv young mems trade. Prince Albert suits, brown and black, are quite the thing for dress occasions; we have them from $2C to S25 Our brown, black and blue Elysi- an overcoats in young men s sizes are very cheap considering the quality of materia
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 Der coats of all sizes and kinds, just the ! look us over when in the city.-[N -[Nationa i Clothing Go A. H. Davis.
The Newtown bee., 1887-12-02

Sweeping reductions have been made in their carpet department by the Copeland Bros. Co. This firm do not want 10 carry one single roll of their present stock over into the coming season To avoid the necessity for doing so, prices have been literally slaughtered; all wool extra super ingrain goods, value for 75 cents are now offered for 55 Tapestries, which have sold freely for 80 cents. are now shown at 6D. In the higher grades of floor coverings, purchasers vii find equally at- tractive prices. These goods are not old or un- saleable patterns; they have all been manufact- ured for the present season. It is an opportunity rarely presented to the public to secure first class goods at nominal prices.
The Newtown bee., 1887-12-02
BRIDGEPORT.

Those recent successes of the New York Lyceum theater, 1.-The Great Pink Pearl' and "Editha's Burglar" have been secured for December 10 at Hawes opera house by G. B Bunnell, under whose management they will be produced with William Gill lette as the star. MT Gillette was last seen here in the Private Secretary" Since ion as the author of Held by the Enemy and dramatist of the forthcoming pro- duction of "She.'' There will be special matinee at popular prices and reserved seats for the matinee and evening per- formances will be on sale at Hawes opera house on Monday, 9th
 Mrs 0, B. Sherwood was entertained on Thanksgiving day at the residence of James W. Beardsley, Esq.
 Two new men, Editor John C. Hubbard and Reporter A. B. Underwood, are on the Farmer.
 shock, last week. rendering her nearly helpless. Her husband Capt Clark. has been shattered in mind and body for some time.
 Mrs George k. Cleaveland of Gilbert street has just returned from the Adiron dacks, where. seeking relief from hay fe yer, she spent three months.
 Repor CT Arthur French has been con fined to the house with terribly swellee jaw.
 Mrs Richard H. Boylston of Lafayette street was taken seriously i'll, Saturday night; threatened with pneumonia. l Hams college for Thanksgiving.
The Newtown bee., 1887-12-02
NICHOLS.

H. L. Phillips's children suffer with whooping cough.
 N. J. Clark has put in large cistern, called for by the hard water here.
 Arthur Lewis of Bozeman, Montana, is with his grandfather, Charles Ambler, Sundays.
 The Episcopal ladies opened the season at R c. Ambler's. met again with George Thompson and will now meet at Charles j.. Thorpes.
 Mrs T. l.. Wade and children were Thanksgiving guests of Birdsey Curtis.
The Newtown bee., 1887-12-02

The Thanksgiving sale of rich rlushes, velvets, silks and trimming satins commenced by W. B. Hall & Co. was a great success in spite of the bad weather. It will be continued until the opening of their holiday goods. In order to make room for their vast collection of novelties, they Lave placed on sale their entire assortment of French and German combination suits at reduction which would do credit to January sale. Ladies looking for fine furs feather trimmings, jets.pas sementeres will find large variety on the coun- rers of the Cannon street section.
The Newtown bee., 1887-12-02
Don't Experiment.

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The Newtown bee., 1887-12-02
A Sound Legal Opinion.

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The Newtown bee., 1887-12-02

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